Superhero Worship

Downeys Iron Man kicks off he-man film fest

The modern wave of cinematic superheroes  Marvels, especially  have lost a great deal in translation from page to screen, but a couple have fallen through Hollywoods high-concept cracks to become iconic. The most surprising is last years Iron Man, in which that mercurial bust of an actor Robert Downey Jr. revived his drug-tarnished career by flying around in a metallic monkey suit. It wasnt a great movie, but it was still fuckin great.